JIRA Contracts in the South East

Atlassian JIRA
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 47 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 -8 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 192 244 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.37% 4.31% 5.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.85% 33.56% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 138 281
10th Percentile £300 £329 £350
25th Percentile £350 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +2.56% +4.84%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £650 £658 £675
England median daily rate £525 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -2.55% +2.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 26 14
10th Percentile £34.68 £51.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £64.38 £55.31 £52.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +6.25% -0.83%
75th Percentile - £70.96 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.25 £75.00 £67.26
England median hourly rate £62.50 £61.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year +2.04% +37.64% -19.82%

All Development Application Skills
South East

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 551 727 996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.66% 12.84% 12.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 475 642
10th Percentile £313 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £619 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £696 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 42 20
10th Percentile £44.35 £35.29 £44.82
25th Percentile £56.75 £50.31 £49.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.99 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% -5.03% +6.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £65.14
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.88 £68.02
England median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the South East.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +8 101 £475 -7.32% 29
Berkshire -1 79 £525 +2.44% 11
Hampshire -8 50 £538 +16.22% 19
Surrey 0 27 £381 -20.98% 18
Buckinghamshire +37 16 £360 -29.76% 12
West Sussex -10 9 £500 +1.92% 15
Oxfordshire +12 7 £450 -11.76% 6
Middlesex - 2 £538 -
Kent -3 1 - - 2
Sussex -6 1 £350 -30.00% 2
Home Counties - 1 - -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 88 (45.83%) Confluence
2 13 (6.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 13 (6.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (4.17%) Apache
4 6 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.56%) Appian
6 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.08%) Sketch
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.52%) FileZilla
5 1 (0.52%) Simulink
5 1 (0.52%) Trello
5 1 (0.52%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (5.21%) SAP Hybris
2 2 (1.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 34 (17.71%) AWS
2 32 (16.67%) Azure
3 12 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 10 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.60%) SaaS
6 4 (2.08%) Figma
6 4 (2.08%) GitHub
7 3 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.56%) PaaS
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.04%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (1.04%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (1.04%) GCP
8 2 (1.04%) IaaS
8 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.04%) Route 53
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.38%) SNMP
2 17 (8.85%) Software-Defined Radio
3 15 (7.81%) BGP
3 15 (7.81%) MPLS
4 11 (5.73%) VPN
5 9 (4.69%) DHCP
5 9 (4.69%) DNS
5 9 (4.69%) TCP/IP
6 6 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
6 6 (3.13%) Firewall
6 6 (3.13%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (3.13%) Wireless
7 3 (1.56%) WAN
8 2 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (1.04%) DMVPN
8 2 (1.04%) EIGRP
8 2 (1.04%) IPsec
8 2 (1.04%) OSPF
8 2 (1.04%) Sourcefire
8 2 (1.04%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (4.69%) NoSQL
2 9 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.17%) Big Data
3 8 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (1.56%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.56%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.56%) Tableau
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.04%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.04%) CouchDB
5 2 (1.04%) Impala
5 2 (1.04%) MySQL
5 2 (1.04%) Power BI
5 2 (1.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.52%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 44 (22.92%) Git
2 32 (16.67%) GitLab
3 28 (14.58%) Bitbucket
4 26 (13.54%) Jenkins
5 23 (11.98%) Robot Framework
6 18 (9.38%) GoogleTest
6 18 (9.38%) Selenium
7 17 (8.85%) Eclipse
8 14 (7.29%) Cucumber
9 12 (6.25%) REST Assured
9 12 (6.25%) SonarQube
10 11 (5.73%) TestRail
11 8 (4.17%) Subversion
12 5 (2.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 4 (2.08%) Artifactory
14 3 (1.56%) Maven
15 2 (1.04%) Bitbucket Server
15 2 (1.04%) JMeter
15 2 (1.04%) VersionOne
15 2 (1.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 62 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (15.10%) Finance
4 20 (10.42%) Telecoms
5 14 (7.29%) Aerospace
5 14 (7.29%) Retail
6 9 (4.69%) Law
6 9 (4.69%) Military
7 8 (4.17%) Banking
7 8 (4.17%) Police
8 7 (3.65%) Automotive
9 6 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.60%) Marketing
10 5 (2.60%) Publishing
11 4 (2.08%) Billing
11 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (1.04%) Aviation
13 2 (1.04%) French Language
Job Titles
1 32 (16.67%) Analyst
1 32 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 27 (14.06%) Test Engineer
3 21 (10.94%) Senior
4 20 (10.42%) Developer
5 17 (8.85%) C++ Software Engineer
6 16 (8.33%) Project Manager
7 13 (6.77%) Business Analyst
7 13 (6.77%) Java Engineer
7 13 (6.77%) Java Software Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
8 12 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Integration Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Senior Test Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Embedded C++ Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) IP Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Senior IP Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (15.63%) HTML
2 28 (14.58%) REST
3 25 (13.02%) CSS
4 13 (6.77%) Java EE
5 12 (6.25%) ARM Templates
6 11 (5.73%) SOAP
7 9 (4.69%) React
8 8 (4.17%) XML
9 7 (3.65%) Kafka
9 7 (3.65%) RESTful
10 6 (3.13%) NETCONF
10 6 (3.13%) RESTCONF
10 6 (3.13%) YANG
11 5 (2.60%) GraphQL
11 5 (2.60%) Node.js
11 5 (2.60%) PySpark
12 4 (2.08%) AngularJS
12 4 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (2.08%) JSON
12 4 (2.08%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.73%) PKI
3 8 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.60%) Biopharmaceutical
5 5 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.08%) Credit Risk
6 4 (2.08%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.08%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.04%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.52%) EPoS
9 1 (0.52%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 39 (20.31%) Linux
2 36 (18.75%) Windows
3 17 (8.85%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 6 (3.13%) Unix
6 4 (2.08%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.56%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.04%) VMS
9 1 (0.52%) Android
9 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.52%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (64.06%) Agile
2 56 (29.17%) Scrum
3 46 (23.96%) Software Engineering
4 45 (23.44%) DevOps
5 43 (22.40%) Test Automation
6 34 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.10%) Continuous Integration
8 28 (14.58%) Project Management
9 24 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 22 (11.46%) Validation
11 20 (10.42%) Computer Science
12 18 (9.38%) Containerisation
12 18 (9.38%) Regression Testing
12 18 (9.38%) UML
13 17 (8.85%) Configuration Management
13 17 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (8.85%) SysML
13 17 (8.85%) Technical Leadership
14 16 (8.33%) Test Scripting
14 16 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.75%) SQL
2 28 (14.58%) JavaScript
3 27 (14.06%) C++
3 27 (14.06%) Java
4 24 (12.50%) Python
5 10 (5.21%) Go
5 10 (5.21%) Shell Script
6 8 (4.17%) C#
7 5 (2.60%) Assembly Language
7 5 (2.60%) C
7 5 (2.60%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.08%) F#
9 3 (1.56%) Scala
10 2 (1.04%) Bash
10 2 (1.04%) Groovy
10 2 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.52%) R
11 1 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (17.19%) Degree
1 33 (17.19%) Security Cleared
2 27 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 11 (5.73%) Master's Degree
4 9 (4.69%) MCSA
4 9 (4.69%) MCSE
4 9 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (4.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 7 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.60%) ISTQB
6 5 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.08%) HNC
7 4 (2.08%) PhD
8 3 (1.56%) PMP
9 2 (1.04%) CCNA
9 2 (1.04%) CCNP
9 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.04%) MBA
9 2 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (11.46%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) PMO
3 4 (2.08%) ISO 9001
3 4 (2.08%) JTAG
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.52%) GxP
5 1 (0.52%) IEC 61508
5 1 (0.52%) MISRA
5 1 (0.52%) MISRA C
5 1 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (12.50%) Docker
2 20 (10.42%) Firmware
3 18 (9.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (3.13%) VirtualBox
6 4 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (13.54%) Kubernetes
2 20 (10.42%) Terraform
3 16 (8.33%) Ansible
4 12 (6.25%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (6.25%) Podman
5 4 (2.08%) Rancher
6 2 (1.04%) Control-M
6 2 (1.04%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.52%) Nessus
7 1 (0.52%) SCCM
7 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (13.02%) Atlassian
2 23 (11.98%) Microsoft
3 21 (10.94%) VMware
4 19 (9.90%) Google
5 15 (7.81%) SAP
6 13 (6.77%) Adobe
6 13 (6.77%) ServiceNow
7 11 (5.73%) Oracle
8 9 (4.69%) Juniper
9 8 (4.17%) Dell
10 7 (3.65%) Salesforce
11 5 (2.60%) HP
12 4 (2.08%) Apple
12 4 (2.08%) Palo Alto
13 3 (1.56%) CA Agile Central
13 3 (1.56%) Cisco
14 2 (1.04%) Bloomberg
14 2 (1.04%) CheckPoint
14 2 (1.04%) Citrix
14 2 (1.04%) Reuters